Ai Weiwei Quotes, Party Quotes, Views Quotes

My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

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Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.

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I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

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Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.

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I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

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To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

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I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

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I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind.

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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

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Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

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That's why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.

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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.

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I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

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Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

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